Suggested References
- Structures section of Ansys Innovation Space
- The Finite Element Method. Third Edition by Zienkiewicz, O.C., Editorial: McGraw-Hill, 1982, ISBN 10: 0070840725 / ISBN 13: 9780070840720
- Finite Element Analysis for Engineers: A Primer by Trevor Hellen, Adib A. Becker, International Association for the Engineering Analysis Community, NAFEMS, 2013, ISBN 1874376980, 9781874376989
- Schaum's Outline - Strength of Materials, 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill Education; December 9, 2013, ISBN-10: 0071830804, ISBN-13: 978-0071830805
Training Instructions
Welcome aboard! Please go through all training courses sequentially unless you have prior working experience with certain tools. Start by going to the course link, download the course material, and register for the upcoming class. If no suitable upcoming class is available, go through the self-paced learning course in its entirety and complete all course workshops.0-6 Months Learning Path
Ansys Structural Product Bootcamp
This training will take you through the Ansys Structural technology and high-level product overview
Getting Started with Ansys Mechanical
In this course, you will get familiar with the Ansys Mechanical user interface and learn important tips and tricks to be more productive with your simulation workflow.
Ansys Discovery for FEA
This course covers the understanding of the main tools in Discovery to create a geometry from scratch or to clean up and prepare an imported geometry for an FEA modelling using Ansys Mechanical.
Introduction to Ansys Meshing
This course will be of major benefit to all engineers intending to perform FEA simulations. The basic principles of mesh generation, the workflow and best practices for efficiently creating meshes for Ansys FEA simulations will be presented and practiced.
Stress Analysis using Ansys Mechanical
This course will help you to understand how to use Ansys Mechanical effectively to evaluate the structural integrity of the designs.
Foundation in Structural Nonlinearities
In this course, you will learn the fundamentals that are necessary to understand and handle different types of nonlinearities in structural analysis.
Ansys Mechanical Basic Structural Nonlinearities
This material is specifically designed to equip you with the fundamental skills necessary for conducting nonlinear studies using Ansys Mechanical. By engaging with this content, you will develop a solid foundation in nonlinear analysis techniques with Ansys Mechanical
Ansys Mechanical Advanced Connections
Learn the skills necessary to implement advanced connections features that are vital for the accurate representation of many complex real-world physical phenomena. Efficiently simulate the structural response of physical systems that include nonlinear and/or specialized features like elastomeric seals, gaskets, interference fits, bolt pretension, and surface wear.
Foundation in Linear Dynamics of Structures
This content will help to learn engineering fundamentals that are needed to perform, understand, and interpret results from linear dynamics analyses using Ansys Mechanical
Linear Dynamics using Ansys Mechanical
In this Learning Track, you will learn how to use Ansys Mechanical to determine the natural frequencies of the model and to solve downstream linear dynamic simulations, including harmonic, random vibration, transient, and response spectrum analyses.
Heat Transfer in Structures
This course will take you through the mechanism of heat transfer.
Ansys Mechanical Heat Transfer
This study material is designed to aid you in acquiring the essential skills for accurately forecasting the thermal behaviour of structures when exposed to different heat loads. Through this resource, you will gain comprehensive knowledge of solution techniques for conduction, natural convection, and radiation heat transfer in both steady-state and time-varying scenarios.
Ansys Beam and Shell
This course will cover the fundamentals of using beams and shells in structural analysis and how to use them in Ansys Mechanical.
FEA Best Practice
This course is designed to bridge the gap between procedurally oriented training seminars and mathematically oriented finite element method classes. The course material is derived from many decades of applied FEA experience and is presented in a clear style developed from years of FEA training and support.
Profesional Skills
Skills - Technical Skills Training
You will face competitive software quite often in presales situations. It is therefore important to learn about the competition. This training is intended for internal learning purpose only and all information are confidential. In addition to completing the Competitive Landscape Training, you should also review this Competitive Product Equivalent Chart.
Skills - Soft Skills Training
This is just as important as the technical part of our jobs. This content will focus on business and communication skills focusing on assisting in pre-sales activities.
Skills - Business Skills Trainingg
It is important to learn the post-sales process to ensure the best possible support after sales. This training session will teach you how to develop and retain the customer.
Time For Action
Professional Baseline and Current Release Certifications
Ansys Professional certification ensures that the technical engineer is proficient with Ansys technologies and products. A Structural Engineer must complete the Pre-processing, structural baseline; and current release certifications.
Industry FEA Experts - Mentorship
Professionals & Industry FEA Experts Sessions
Industry FEA Experts will share tips and tricks in various industry segments.
6 - 24 Months Learning Path
Ansys Mechanical Material Nonlinearities For Elastomers
This course covers advanced nonlinear material options including viscoelasticity and hyperelasticity.
Ansys Mechanical Analysis of Structural Plastic
This course is designed for existing users of ANSYS Mechanical. You will learn and achieve an understanding of the available material models for plastics simulation. This course also covers some testing procedures to extract tests data for Ansys simulations.
Ansys Mechanical Advanced Material Modeling
This course covers some of the more advanced material modeling options available in Ansys along with their implementation in Ansys Mechanical.
Ansys Mechanical Material Nonlinearities For Metals
This course covers advanced nonlinear material options including advanced plasticity, creep, viscoplasticity, and shape memory alloys.
Introduction to ANSYS ACT Wizards
ACT allows you to automate the simulation process with the creation of custom guided processes (e.g. wizards). A wizard requires that you decompose your process in steps. Each step will ask the user to define information (inputs). A wizard can include automation of standard capabilities only or a mix of standard and custom capabilities.
Introduction to ANSYS Mechanical APDL
The Ansys Parametric Design Language (APDL) is the foundation for all sophisticated features, many of which are not exposed in the Workbench Mechanical user interface. It also offers many conveniences such as parametrization, macros, branching and looping, and complex math operations.
Ansys Mechanical Commands Objects
This course reveals the relationship between the Mechanical user interface and the core Ansys solver. The content of a Mechanical model, as the solver sees it, is a list of commands. Once you have the knowledge of how the Ansys command language operates, you can tap into all the capabilities Ansys has to offer.
Ansys Mechanical APDL User Programmable Features (UPFs)
One occasion, the need may arise to tailor the behavior of the Ansys APDL program to suit individual needs. The open architecture of Mechanical APDL allows you to write your own routines or subroutines in C, C++, or Fortran programming languages.
Ansyss Mechanical Scripting
The scope of this training is to cover the Ansys Mechanical Scripting. You will learn how to use the console and to access Mechanical’s API. After completing the course, you will be able to automate the creation of standard tree objects in Mechanical/Meshing; change the solver settings; automatically explore the mesh and geometry and export results.
Introduction to Ansys ACT in Mechanical
The scope of this training is to cover Ansys Application Customization Toolkit ACT in Workbench Mechanical / Meshing. You will learn how the development toolkit works and explore its API.